If you are cross country inclined in Australia, the chances are you have grown up on lap based endurance races, or ‘Enduros’ in the form we originally knew them. Both Rocky Trail Entertainment and Chocolate Foot run some stellar race series around the ACT and NSW, and clubs and other promoters get into in other […]
2014 Roc Laissagais
“You’re going to do what? After the last couple of times? Are you sure?” Such was the comment of various riding mates upon hearing that I would be returning to the Roc Laissagais in 2014. 2012 – one week after the Cape Epic. It turns out that one week isn’t really long enough to recover […]
Wallace and Anset win Real XCM Round 3: Wombat 100
The Real Insurance XCM Series is not letting up, with Round 3 right on the back of Round 2 last weekend. Many of Australia’s Elite MTB races headed to Cammeray Waters, where the Wombat 100 is based. The race takes its name from Wombat State Forest, which is about 700 square kilometres size, about an […]
Australian Marathon MTB Championships – Real Insurance XCM Series Round 2
April is a busy month of racing, and to start, the countries best marathon racers congregated at Mt Joyce Recreation Park for the Australian Marathon MTB Championships, which were also the second round of the Real Insurance XCM Series. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdCW_ej_i1M The trails at Mt Joyce, which sits south west of Brisbane between Beaudesert and Boonah, […]
Marathon Series: The Maverick Marathon and The Real Insurance
What is it about a series that inspires a rider to enter a collective of events with the view to achieve in both the individual event and the series overall? The fields of XCO and DH have are veterans in series events showcasing on both a state and national forum. The riders are encouraged to […]
Australian XCM Championships – the Contenders
Mt Joyce Mountain Bike Park opened in 2011, and the Australian XCM Champs that year would have been the first event to be held on the new trails. They were actually so new, that the venue wasn’t yet open, and racers were almost required to race in long sleeves and with steel capped shoes. That […]
Giant Odyssey Mountain Bike Marathon 2014
There is less than a month of training left in the lead up to the notorious Giant Otway Odyssey and both the male and female fields are stacked! The first Odyssey in 2007 was a point to point race from the beautiful seaside town of Apollo Bay to the hinterland village Forrest. I raced this […]
Capital Punishment: mastering the untimed section
If you have never done this race it is a ‘must do’ for any marathon racer, elite, amateur or enthusiast. Capital Punishment (the race) is now five years old and has matured into a fabulous annual event attracting approximately 1500 riders, many of which are repeat offenders. The race is a point-to-point race from East […]
Cooper and Fay triumph over Capital Punishment
The Capital Punishment can be classed as a season opener on the Australian Marathon racing scene. As the Otway Odyssey now moves to April to keep the fire service happy, the Ferbuary test piece has passed the mantle to the people of AROC Sport who run the Capital Punishment Marathon, so named as it crosses […]
Racing resumes with the Real Insurance XCM Series in Bright
The Real Insurance XCM Series was instrumental in lifting the profile of elite marathon racing in Australia in 2011 and 2012. Tying some of the most well known and readily accessible marathons together, with guaranteed media coverage and good prize money, attracted deeper fields more consistently, and the racing moved up a level. Racers with […]